{"id":1568,"date":"2013-02-11T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/book-club-starts-back-in-march.html"},"modified":"2013-02-11T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:27:00","slug":"book-club-starts-back-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/book-club-starts-back-in-march.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Club Starts Back in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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The Rhetoric Race and Religion book club will convene on March 3, 2013 with a\u00a0<\/span>live tweet chat starting at 6:00pmCST\u00a0<\/span>using #R3bookclub as our hashtag. To celebrate our 1 year anniversary of the book club, our book for the month of March is\u00a0<\/span>David J Leonard\u2019s \u201cAfter Artest: The NBA and the\u00a0Assault\u00a0of Blackness<\/a><\/span>.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span>Mark Anthony Neal<\/a> notes that<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u201cIn\u00a0<\/span>After Artest<\/em>, David Leonard confirms why he is one of the sharpest minds writing about race and sports in America today.\u201d<\/span>
Todd Boyd<\/a> writes that\u00a0<\/span>\u201cDavid Leonard offers an incisive analysis of race, in a league defined by race, thus adding meaningful dialogue and a sharp perspective to conversations about the ever-evolving image of the NBA in the post-Jordan era.\u00a0<\/span>To join or get more information, contact us on our\u00a0<\/span>Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span>Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/em>Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the \u201cPalace Brawl\u201d of 2004.<\/span><\/em>

On November 19, 2004, a fight between NBA players Ron Artest and Ben Wallace escalated into a melee involving several other players and many fans. The \u201cPalace Brawl,\u201d writes David J. Leonard, was a seminal event, one that dramatically altered outside perceptions of the sport. With commentators decrying the hip hop or gangsta culture of players, the blackness of the NBA was both highlighted and disdained. This was a harsh blow to the league\u2019s narrative of colorblindness long cultivated by Commissioner David Stern and powerfully embodied in the beloved figure of Michael Jordan. As Leonard demonstrates, the league viewed this moment as a threat needing intervention, quickly adopting policies to govern black players and prevent them from embracing styles and personas associated with blackness. This fascinating book discloses connections between the NBA\u2019s discourse and the broader discourse of antiblack racism. Particular policy changes that seemed aimed at black players, such as the NBA dress code and the debate over a minimum age requirement, are explored.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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\u201cIn\u00a0<\/span>After Artest<\/em>, David Leonard confirms why he is one of the sharpest minds writing about race and sports in America today. Race is serious business and no one understands better than Leonard how that extends to the arenas and stadiums that have long been the site of confrontation between black bodies and spectators.\u201d \u2014 Mark Anthony Neal, author of\u00a0<\/span>New Black Man<\/em>

\u201cDavid Leonard offers an incisive analysis of race, in a league defined by race, thus adding meaningful dialogue and a sharp perspective to conversations about the ever-evolving image of the NBA in the post-Jordan era. Though haters will undoubtedly try to call a technical foul, Leonard goes hard in the paint nonetheless, shining another light on the always complicated racial politics that continue to inform the game of basketball.\u201d \u2014 Dr. Todd Boyd, the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture in the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts<\/span>

\u201cThe power of the event is that it changes everything. So it is, David Leonard demonstrates in\u00a0<\/span>After Artest<\/em>, in the post-Palace NBA. When Ron Artest went into the stands in the Palace of Auburn Hills in that fateful game in 2004, he not only subjected himself to unprecedented punishment, he also altered the entire discourse of race in the NBA.\u00a0<\/span>After Artest<\/em>\u00a0offers a critique not only of the NBA\u2019s new modes of policing blackness, but it brings to light\u2014and to life\u2014that combustible encounter between \u2018new racism\u2019 and postracism in contemporary America. Racial politics, sociology, the nasty underside of America\u2019s history, and sport are brought together forcefully by Leonard in\u00a0<\/span>After Artest<\/em>.\u201d \u2014 Grant Farred, author of\u00a0<\/span>What\u2019s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals and Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football<\/em>

\u201c<\/span>After Artest<\/em>\u00a0breathes new life into the critical scholarship on sporting-based racial representation, and that of the NBA more specifically, by fleshing out the key political sit
\nes and struggles of the post-Artest moment. Leonard\u2019s combination of rigorous empirical command and nuanced theoretical interpretation generates a compelling and insightful analysis.\u201d \u2014 David L. Andrews, editor of\u00a0<\/span>Michael Jordan, Inc.: Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rhetoric Race and Religion book club will convene on March 3, 2013 with a\u00a0live tweet chat starting at 6:00pmCST\u00a0using #R3bookclub as our hashtag. 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